Kalle Sauerland has confirmed that the Super Six World Boxing Classic Clash between WBC Super-Middleweight Champion Carl Froch and Danish hero Mikkel Kessler on April 24 will go ahead as planned despite multiple airspace closures throughout Europe. The “Cobra†was scheduled to fly from Great Britain to Denmark tomorrow, but with most of the European…
Tickets to the “Stadium Slugfest,†Yankee Stadium’s inaugural brawl featuring the world championship rumble between three-time world titlist Miguel Cotto and undefeated WBA super welterweight champion Yuri Foreman go on sale today. Foreman (28-0, 8 KOs), a 29-year-old from Brooklyn, NY, became the first orthodox Jew to win a world championship in nearly seventy years….
Many of New England’s top prospects will be in action May 7 on the “Spring Fever†card, presented by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc. (CES), at Twin River Event Center in Lincoln, R.I. New Bedford (MA) welterweight Jason “School Boy†Pires (22-3-1, 9 KOs), the former USBA super bantamweight champion and active New…
A war of words that has erupted over the internet will finally be resolved in the boxing ring in Limerick next month when rivals Michael “The Storm†Sweeney and Ian Tims clash for the Irish Cruiserweight title on the Yanjing Fight Night at the University Sports Arena. The May 15th clash is part of an…
Former world title challenger and John Duddy conqueror Billy Lyell (21-8, 4 KO’s) makes his return to the ring on an NES Sports TV PPV on Friday May 7, live from Morgantown, West Virginia. Lyell, a frequent sparring partner of middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik and junior middleweight contender Harry Joe Yorgey, gained notoriety in 2009…
Boxing is not a sport that readily lends itself to statistics, but one set of numbers is as elemental as a left-right combination: a fighter’s wins, losses and draws. We often overvalue a good record and misinterpret a mediocre one; there are dozens of 10-loss veterans who are better than young fighters with only one…
Before Floyd “Money” Mayweather and Sugar Shane Mosley heat up the Las Vegas night in their Saturday, May 1 mega-fight, some of the top contenders in boxing today will enter the ring at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev. and warm up fans in attendance and those watching at home on the…
“It’s hard to change the style you used during your whole career in nine short months. When you’re in an intense situation you quickly turn back to your old habits,” states Lucian Bute (25-0-0, 20 K.-O.) about his opponent Edison Miranda (33-4-0, 29 K.-O.), who switched trainers and is now with the renowned Joe Goossen….
Fresh off of a 12 round battle with the legendary Bernard Hopkins last December, one of boxing’s most exciting warriors, Enrique Ornelas, will return to the middleweight division and to L.A. LIVE’s Club Nokia on Thursday, April 22, to headline the next edition of L.A.’s hottest Thursday night spot, “Fight Night Club”. La Habra, California’s…
Martin Concepcion or Kevin Hammond could be in line for a shock crack at British light-middleweight champion Sam Webb. The pair box a return on Frank Maloney’s big bill at Coventry Skydome on Friday April 23 with Concepcion’s Midlands area title on the line. When they clashed in February Leicester’s Concepcion (16-7) took a controversial…
WBC Super Middleweight Champion and Super Six World Boxing Classic participant Carl Froch will feature in the latest edition of Trans World Sports, the long running weekly sports program ahead of his upcoming showdown against the “Viking Warrior†Mikkel Kessler at the MCH Messecenter, Herning, Denmark on Saturday 24th April.
The Grand Sierra Resort/Casino and Let’s Get It On Promotions are pleased to announce “Reno Xtreme Fights IV”, May 22nd. Reno’s own Joey Gilbert (18-2, 14 KOs) will make his return to the ring against veteran Anthony Bartinelli (20-13, 13 KOs) in an eight round middleweight bout. Tickets are on sale now. Gilbert is coming…